Thursday, April 07, 2011

Pat Robertson Blessed with War in the Ivory Coast

With strong support from pastors of various denominations in Ivory Coast, CBN began to make preparation for an evangelistic media campaign that would take place during the Christmas holidays. What no one expected though, was that the country would erupt into civil war.

….CBN WorldReach Director Peter Darg writes …”With a complete curfew from sun down to sun up, everybody is trying to race around to get to work, school or shopping and mostly creating massive traffic tie ups. After dark, everyone is at home watching TV, so the blitz (media campaign)timing is perfect in this regard (imagine what the USA TV networks would give to force everyone in the country to be in their homes every night watching the TV or face being shot).

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Remember when Pat Robertson used 700 Club money to become a business partner with Charles Taylor in conflict diamond mining during the Liberian Civil War (while al Qaeda was partnering with Taylor as well) and then avoided prosecution in the State of Virginia because he had donated huge amounts of money to the then-Attorney General who is a Christianist? Good times.

But seriously, if there's a war in the Ivory Coast, doesn't that mean it's a great time for Rev. Robberson to make some profits with blood ivory? To hell with those dirty hippie tusk-huggers who say it's evil to kill jumbo to pull out his teeth. They said the same whiny things about removing perfectly good gold fillings that were just going to waste in the mouths of deceased descendants of the Christ-killers. And if there are no elephants to be slaughtered any more in the Ivory Coast, surely some of those Ivorians have fillings, eh?

I'm so tired from long work hours lately that that last sentence was read as "...in their homes watching TV or their face being shot". It was hard to imagine Dick Cheney venturing outside of our own borders to the Ivory Coast just to penalize a curfew violation. Maybe if an Ivory Coaster were to threaten to spill the beans about Ohio in 2004...then, maybe.

[BTW, are they Ivory Coasters? It sounds like contraband my grandmother would insist be used on her nice coffee table.]